Category: Comment

My question is “how can farmers make a difference?” POTENTIALLY agriculture could repair global warming by catching and sequestering warmth, light and carbon dioxide. However, the cultural belief is our only choice is to bare more and more soil, plow, erode, and wage war with chemicals to feed the world’s increasing billions. A few people, such …. more

Julian Cribb FTSE EVERY meal you eat now costs the planet 10 kilos of topsoil author and science writer Julian Cribb will tell New Zealand and Australian soil scientists meeting in Queenstown, NZ on December 15, 2016. “Ten kilos of topsoil, 800 litres of water, 1.3 litres of diesel, 0.3g of pesticide and 3.5 kilos of …. more

By Hugh Lovel RECENTLY I found myself greeted as an elder, a survivor of an era of transition in agriculture where many of the old hands and articulate voices are falling by the wayside. Over the past 40 years things have truly changed in eco farming. When I embraced the land my goal was growing …. more

STEVE Marsh’s loss in the Marsh v Baxter case today by a 2 to 1 vote of the judges just confirms that the Barnett government sold out organic and GM-free farmers. Common law and the courts can’t deliver a fair remedy to family farmers for GM contamination of organic and GM-free farms. “Monsanto and the …. more

KENYAN MPs are calling to lift the national ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) only two years after then President Kibaki sanctioned restrictions on their production and importation. The potential of GM products as a food security solution is unclear, however, and serves as a headline grabbing distraction from the raft of structural problems that compound risks to …. more

FOOD wastage has resurfaced as a problem in Saudi Arabia during the holy month of Ramadan. As a leading importer of food, Saudi Arabia will face many challenges in feeding its young and growing population in the years ahead. Saudi Arabia lacks the water, arable land and climate conditions necessary for large-scale agriculture and has historically relied on imports …. more